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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 54

Abstract of Railways Working Account

FOUR-WEEKLY PERIOD ENDED 22ND JUNE, 1946

1ST APRIL, 1946, TO 22ND JUNE, 1946

ANALYSIS OF RAILWAY OPERATING REVENUE AND TRAFFIC

ANALYSIS OF RAILWAY OPERATING EXPENDITURE

Capital cost of open lines as at 31st March, 1946 .. £ 74,466,731

Price Order No. 589 (Amending Price Order No. 140)
(Substantial Meals)

PURSUANT to the powers conferred on it by the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939,* the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, doth hereby make the following amending Price Order :—

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 589, and shall be read together with and deemed part of Price Order No. 140† (hereinafter referred to as the principal Order).

2. This Order shall come into force on the 8th day of August, 1946.

3. The principal Order is hereby amended by adding, after clause 6, the following heading and clause :—

“SPECIAL PRICES WHERE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGES INCURRED

“7. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this Order, and subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, the Tribunal, on application by any purveyor of meals, may authorize special maximum prices in respect of any meals to which this Order applies where extraordinary charges are incurred for any reason, or special amenities are provided, or special services are rendered by the purveyor. Any authority given by the Tribunal under this clause may apply with respect to specified meals or may relate generally to all meals to which this Order applies supplied by the purveyor while the approval remains in force.”

Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of August, 1946.

The Seal of the Price Tribunal was affixed hereto in the presence of—

[L.S.] W. J. HUNTER (Judge), President.
H. L. WISE, Member.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.
  † Gazette, 3rd June, 1943; Vol. II, page 633.

Price Order No. 590 (Milk) (Whakatane)

PURSUANT to the powers conferred on it by the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939,* the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, doth hereby make the following Price Order :—

PRELIMINARY

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 590, and shall come into force on the 8th day of August, 1946.

2. In this Order—

“Whakatane Milk District” means the district within a radius of three miles from the post-office at Whakatane:

“Commercial user” means a person who buys milk or cream for sale for consumption on his premises (whether in the form in which it is received by him or otherwise and whether separately or in combination with any other substance or substances) :

“Consumer” means a person who buys milk or cream for purposes other than resale:

“Shop dairy” means a shop where milk or cream is sold for consumption or use off the premises and not otherwise and where the milk or cream so sold is sold in the form in which it was received into the shop dairy.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. (1) Nothing in this Order shall apply with respect to milk or cream sold to a Hospital Board for use in any institution under the control of that Board or to milk or cream sold for use in any separate institution within the meaning of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926.

(2) Except as provided in the last preceding subclause, this Order applies with respect to all milk and cream wherever produced that is sold—

(a) To the occupier of any shop dairy within the Whakatane Milk District; or

(b) By the occupier of a shop dairy or by any other person to a commercial user or to a consumer within the Whakatane Milk District.

FIXING PRICES OF MILK AND CREAM TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

4. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received for any milk or cream to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate price set out in the Schedule hereto.

(2) The prices fixed by this Order are fixed as for delivery as follows :—

(a) In respect of milk or cream sold by the occupier of a shop dairy: As for delivery to the purchaser at the shop dairy:

(b) In respect of milk or cream sold otherwise than at a shop dairy: As for delivery at the premises of the purchaser.

(3) Where an account is rendered to any purchaser for milk supplied to him during a period comprising more than one day, the price that may be charged for the milk to which the account relates shall be computed as follows :—

(a) For all milk supplied during the period in measurements of half-pint or less, the price shall be computed separately for each lot supplied at a rate not exceeding the appropriate rate fixed by this Order:

(b) For all milk supplied during the period in measurements of more than half-pint but less than two pints (exclusive of milk so supplied on any one day of a total quantity of one gallon or more), the price shall be computed separately for each lot supplied at a rate not exceeding the appropriate rate fixed by this Order:

(c) For all milk supplied during the period in measurements of two pints or more (exclusive of milk so supplied on any one day of a total quantity of one gallon or more), the price shall be computed at a rate not exceeding the appropriate rate fixed in the Schedule hereto for two pints:

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.